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Alonso, Christensen and Mount benched as Tuchel makes multiple changes

There are four Premier League matches kicking off at 15:00 BST today, including Chelsea v Southampton.

Three of the four most-bought Fantasy Premier League (FPL) players of Gameweek 7 are on the Blues’ books: Antonio Rudiger, Marcos Alonso and Romelu Lukaku.

Two of that trio start this afternoon, with Alonso the man to miss out as Ben Chilwell gets his first Premier League start of the season.

Thomas Tuchel said his side needed “fresh legs and more energy” in defeat to Juventus in midweek and he has responded with a raft of changes this afternoon.

Compared to Gameweek 6, there are five alterations.

Trevoh Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Callum Hudson-Odoi come into the side along with Chilwell, with Alonso, Andreas Christensen and Jorginho benched. N’Golo Kante is self-isolating following a positive Covid-19 test, while Reece James is ruled out through injury.

As for their opponents this afternoon, Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl makes two changes following his side’s 1-0 loss at Molineux.

Nathan Tella and Theo Walcott come in for Mohamed Elyounoussi and Che Adams, with Tino Livramento extending his 100% starting record.

The other fixtures starting at the traditional kick-off time are Burnley v Norwich City, Leeds United v Watford and Wolverhampton Wanderers v Newcastle United.

Raphinha was passed fit on Thursday and is part of a Leeds side showing only one change from last weekend, with the fit-again Diego Llorente replacing Charlie Cresswell at centre-half.

There are two alterations for Watford, with Ozan Tufan and Francisco Sierralta in for Craig Cathcart and Tom Cleverley.

Bruno Lage makes two changes to the Wolves team that beat Southampton on Sunday: Ruben Neves and Francisco Trincao come in for the benched Leander Dendoncker and Daniel Podence, with Adama Traore again only a substitute.

Newcastle are unchanged.

Burnley’s two alterations are enforced, with the injured Ben Mee and Maxwel Cornet replaced by Aaron Lennon and Nathan Collins.

There’s bad news for owners of Norwich’s two most-owned bargain-bin FPL assets, with Billy Gilmour benched again and Brandon Williams losing his place to Dimitris Giannoulis in Daniel Farke’s only starting XI tweak.

GAMEWEEK 7 LINE-UPS

Burnley XI: Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, Collins, Taylor, Lennon, McNeil, Brownhill, Westwood, Wood, Vydra.

Subs: Gudmundsson, Rodriguez, Barnes, Hennessey, Long, Norris, Cork, Pieters, Bardsley.

Norwich XI: Krul, Kabak, Giannoulis, Gibson, Aarons, Hanley, Normann, Lees-Melou, McLean, Sargent, Pukki.

Subs: Idah, Rashica, Omobamidele, Gunn, Rupp, Tzolis, Gilmour, Dowell, Williams.


Chelsea XI: Mendy, Azpilicueta, Silva, Rudiger, Chalobah, Chilwell, Loftus-Cheek, Hudson-Odoi, Kovacic, Lukaku, Werner.

Subs: Kepa, Alonso, Christensen, Jorginho, Saul, Barkley, Mount, Ziyech, Havertz.

Southampton XI: McCarthy, Livramento, Bednarek, Salisu, Walker-Peters, Walcott, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Redmond, Tella, Armstrong.

Subs: Forster, Lyanco, Long, Adams, Perraud, S Armstrong, Djenepo, Elyounoussi, Diallo.


Leeds XI: Meslier, Firpo, Cooper, Raphinha, Llorente, Dallas, Rodrigo, James, Phillips, Klich, Shackleton.

Subs: Klaesson, Roberts, Struijk, Harrison, Gelhardt, Hjelde, Cresswell, McKinstry, Greenwood.

Watford XI: Foster, Rose, Ekong, King, Tufan, Sissoko, Femenia, Sarr, Dennis, Sierralta, Kucka.

Subs: Bachmann, Ngakia, Cleverley, Pedro, Masina, Sema, Gosling, Kabasele, Hernandez.


Wolves XI: Sa, Kilman, Coady, Saiss, Semedo, Moutinho, Neves, Marcal, Trincao, Jimenez, Hwang

Subs: Ruddy, Hoever, Ait-Nouri, Podence, Boly, Silva, Dendoncker, Traore, Cundle.

Newcastle XI: Darlow, Manquillo, Fernandez, Clark, Ritchie, Hayden, Almiron, Willock, S Longstaff, Joelinton, Saint-Maximin

Subs: Gillespie, Schar, Lewis, Hendrick, Kraft, Fraser, Murphy, Anderson, Gayle.

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1,673 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Collie01
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    FPL headline for that goal: Werner gets in the way of Lukaku tap in!

  2. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hmm I would have done TAA to Azpi for a hit then benched Livramento so all a bit meh

  3. TheBiffas
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Wow azpilicueta

  4. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Azpi 2 HOOOOOLD

  5. Ruinenlust
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    BOSS Barkley!

  6. ZeBestee
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Werner decided to steal Kaku's goal when we needed him the most, classic fpl.

  7. Salah’s Sonnet
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    What a depressing day of football

  8. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Werner a decent price tbf…

    1. Paqueta Rice
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Lol

      1. Paqueta Rice
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        I like him and he has been unlucky at Chelsea. Maybe things will click for him

    2. ZeBestee
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Yeah, played well today. If he can start scoring he will be a really good option.

    3. Ze_Austin
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      No, Kap. Just no

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        Hehe better than Kane surely

  9. Moose™
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    TAA to Azpi it is

  10. Paqueta Rice
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Big game bias from VAR. never a red for JWP

    1. dark91
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Haven't seen it yet but you seem to be the only one thinking it is undeserved

      1. Paqueta Rice
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        Along with every pundit on sky and BT

      2. Paqueta Rice
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        Was a foul but never a red

    2. Ruinenlust
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Then Chelsea’s second goal should never have been ruled out

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Nobody cares

      1. soup natsi
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        You just did

        1. Salah’s Sonnet
          • 12 Years
          2 years, 5 months ago

          To the deluded, I guess I did

    2. Paqueta Rice
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      In fairness, Rudiger assisted Lukaku earlier and it was a toenail offside and disallowed

    3. mezza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Surprised this was ever up for debate

    4. Tinkermania
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Until you define ''short term'', don't know who is right.

    5. Mighty Banana
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Do you also link the calls you make that go wrong?

  11. Im New Here
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    World class pass from Barkley there

  12. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Don’t worry if you’ve had a bad game week, we can use our superior skill to get back up the ranks

  13. 1984 TC
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you Timo! Right place, at the right time.

    Vardy (C) let’s gooooooo!! Where? I don’t know, doesn’t matter.

  14. BIGREDDOG
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    TIMOOOOO

  15. farmerfat
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    I may struggle to hit 20 points this gw

  16. JONALDINHO
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Of course I went Rudiger over Azpi

  17. DannyDrinkVodka
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Azpilicueta to Alonso last minute switch on wildcard is killing me

  18. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Chilly Goal

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Oh ffs

  19. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Chilwell goal

  20. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Chilly

  21. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Beginning to think Vardy is the premium striker to get instead of Rom or Ron.

  22. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    All going wrong

  23. Ruinenlust
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Lukaku misses sitter LOL

  24. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Chilwell! Madness

  25. @persecuted_by_mods
      2 years, 5 months ago

      RIP ALONSO

      1. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        And yet no

        1. @persecuted_by_mods
            2 years, 5 months ago

            Stop crying every 2 seconds jeez

      2. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        AZPI 2ND ASSIST

        1. JONALDINHO
          • 6 Years
          2 years, 5 months ago

          Oh ffs.

        2. Salah’s Sonnet
          • 12 Years
          2 years, 5 months ago

          f off

          1. soup natsi
            • 9 Years
            2 years, 5 months ago

            Lol

      3. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        Lowton assist for Chillwell goal?

        1. Steve The Spud
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 4 Years
          2 years, 5 months ago

          Lol, great commend

      4. Duke Silver ☑
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        Azpi assist again I think

      5. 1984 TC
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        CHILLLLLLIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!